People all over TikTok and Instagram are using the word "clanker" as a catch-all for robots and AI. Here's a deep dive into the origins of the pejorative and an explanation of why it's spreading.
06.08.2025 14:35 — 👍 324 🔁 48 💬 117 📌 211@abroshar.bsky.social
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People all over TikTok and Instagram are using the word "clanker" as a catch-all for robots and AI. Here's a deep dive into the origins of the pejorative and an explanation of why it's spreading.
06.08.2025 14:35 — 👍 324 🔁 48 💬 117 📌 211Your feel-good story of the day www.irishstar.com/news/million...
06.08.2025 18:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0On this Chairteenth, we celebrate the good folks of Montgomery, especially our guy AquaMayne. Special shout out to the folks who, within 72 hours, recreated this in their apartment complex. A COMMUNITY!! 💀
06.08.2025 00:47 — 👍 7528 🔁 1734 💬 254 📌 407We’re watching this now and I have no idea what’s going on ❤️
06.08.2025 04:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“this version of the internet is about performing certainty” sums up so fucking much about right now that i want to scream.
02.08.2025 17:51 — 👍 122 🔁 20 💬 1 📌 1The husband @broshar.bsky.social sent me this funny little opinion piece, and all I keep thinking about is how American wealth basically saved the British aristocracy during the Gilded Age 🙃 www.thetimes.com/us/opinion/a...
02.08.2025 16:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Weekend thread by the 🧵master
02.08.2025 16:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Today’s proof of this: the bitch is too stupid and fragile to understand data. www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
01.08.2025 20:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0sausage shop called wurst case scenario? is that anything?
01.08.2025 19:12 — 👍 63 🔁 5 💬 14 📌 3[guy in lab coat walks to chalkboard, takes out chalk, writes:]
MAD COW DI$EA$E BUT FOR ROBOT$
[underlines "ROBOT$" twice]
Paul Miyamoto has endorsed Chad Bianco (Oath Keepers member, fellow MAGAt, deportation fanatic) for governor.
He’s disgusting.
You darn kids better stop that outdoor recreating RIGHT NOW
30.07.2025 04:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0In a typically cynical move, the @sfchronicle put its (broken!) “search your address” map behind a fucking paywall.
30.07.2025 04:32 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Have fun getting shamed on Reddit, you absolute MAGAts
30.07.2025 04:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0PAYWALL? What the fuck are you assholes doing over there?
30.07.2025 04:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It’s always dad joke o’clock somewhere
30.07.2025 04:06 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Yep
30.07.2025 01:54 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0This is Roy Cohn erasure
30.07.2025 01:54 — 👍 244 🔁 19 💬 7 📌 3Bove himself is a literal criminal. A man whose short time in the public eye is defined by his open contempt for the law and those responsible for enforcing it. And the only reason he was nominated is because of his slavish devotion to the president’s most lawless impulses.
30.07.2025 01:19 — 👍 5990 🔁 1203 💬 59 📌 38the republican party is a criminal conspiracy against the american republic
30.07.2025 01:15 — 👍 15278 🔁 3692 💬 205 📌 105Over 900 former DOJ lawyers —the size of a small town — signed a letter in opposition of this
30.07.2025 01:50 — 👍 22 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 1I’m sure we will be! ❤️
30.07.2025 01:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I can’t believe I’m about to die in a tsunami not knowing what the hell a labubu is
30.07.2025 01:44 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0This is exactly why we can’t react to every little thing. One judge with a lifetime appointment? Shake it off. Live harder. Laugh right in their faces.
30.07.2025 01:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I think it’s bc they don’t like nerds. simply stated, these mfs know they’re nobody’s best or brightest. they definitely aren’t good looking. so, they resort to what remains for them: disempowering the wise and knowledgeable. harassing and intimidating the beautiful.
29.07.2025 14:42 — 👍 50 🔁 18 💬 3 📌 0It's so weird how all the private swimming pools in the Alexandria area were built between 1954 and 1958
30.07.2025 01:38 — 👍 415 🔁 47 💬 11 📌 1Lol. He grifted so hard, even the grifters wanted nothing to do with him.
“Dr. Prasad did not want to be a distraction to the great work of the FDA in the Trump administration and has decided to return to California and spend more time with his family,” HHS spokesperson Andrew Nixon told STAT.
Strangely enough, I am safer in our Richmond District flat than I am on the third floor of my company’s downtown office building richmondsunsetnews.com/2021/08/05/u...
30.07.2025 01:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0a burrito large enough for two people. a burritwo
29.07.2025 22:18 — 👍 280 🔁 62 💬 27 📌 3I am holding out for Britney + Hillary Clinton
30.07.2025 01:15 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0